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Jung Chang was born in Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) she worked as a peasant, a ‘barefoot’ doctor, a steelwork
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Jung Chang The Official Website of the International Best-Selling Author More than 15 million copies sold in over 40 languages Jung Chang at a gate of the Forbidden City where Empress Dowager Cixi lived. Jung Chang is the best-selling author of Wild Swans , which The Asian Wall Street Journal called the most widely read book about China, and Mao: The Unknown Story (with Jon Halliday), which was described by Time as “an atom bomb of a book.” Jung Chang, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013), ISBN 0224087436 Jung Chang, Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister (Jonathan Cape, 2019) ISBN 978-1910702789 Jung Chang was born in Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) she worked as a peasant, a ‘barefoot’ doctor, a steelwork In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese history - brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state and it was she who abolished gruesome punishments like 'death by a thousand cuts' and put an end to foot-binding.
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Reviewing Empress Dowager Cixi for the New York Times Book Review last month, Director of Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations Orville Schell called it "absorbing" and said that Chang's "extensive use of new Chinese sources makes a strong case for a reappraisal" of Cixi's role in China's development. Jung Chang's previous books include
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As I'm not familiar with the existing historiography, I don't know to what extent exactly this is a revisionist biography—certainly, if Chang's characterisation of previous historical works on Cixi is true, then this is a swing of the pendulum in the other direction. 2013-10-25 · Empress Dowager Cixi: had she lived longer, says Jung Chang, China might have become a stable constitutional monarchy. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age. At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor's numerous concubines and sexual partners. Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China is a 2013 biography written by Jung Chang, published by Alfred A. Knopf.Chang presents a sympathetic portrait of the Empress Dowager Cixi, who unofficially controlled the Manchu Qing Dynasty in China for 47 years, from 1861 to her death in 1908. Jung Chang The Official Website of the International Best-Selling Author More than 15 million copies sold in over 40 languages Jung Chang at a gate of the Forbidden City where Empress Dowager Cixi lived.
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From internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans, and co-author of the bestselling Mao: The Unknown Story, this is the dramatic, epic biography of the
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Buy Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China 01 by Chang, Jung (ISBN: 9780099532392) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. 2014-07-03 · In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese history - brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state and it was she who abolished gruesome punishments like 'death by a thousand cuts' and put an end to foot-binding. Jung Chang, in conversation about her latest book, Empress Dowager Cixi, with Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society.
Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. 2014-07-03 · In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese history - brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state and it was she who abolished gruesome punishments like 'death by a thousand cuts' and put an end to foot-binding. Jung Chang, in conversation about her latest book, Empress Dowager Cixi, with Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society.
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Jung Chang at a gate of the Forbidden City where Empress Dowager Cixi lived. Jung Chang is the best-selling author of Wild Swans , which The Asian Wall Street Journal called the most widely read book about China, and Mao: The Unknown Story (with Jon Halliday), which was described by Time as “an atom bomb of a book.”
Originaltitel: Empress dowager Cixi. 11 okt. 2018 — Empress Dowager Cixi Wikipedia ~ Empress Dowager Cixi by Katharine Jung Chang Den sista kejsarinnan av Kina Originaltitel Empress 7 maj 2014 — Jung Chang Den sista kejsarinnan av KinaOriginaltitel: Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern ChinaÖversättning: Ulf Utförlig information. Utförlig titel: Den sista kejsarinnan av Kina, [Ljudupptagning], Jung Chang; Originaltitel: Empress Dowager Cixi; Medarbetare: Ulf Gyllenhak.